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Near Miss of the Day 201: Driver goes up one-way street using the cycle track

Our regular feature highlighting close passes caught on camera from around the country – today it’s Dublin

Nobody wants to meet a car coming the wrong way down a one-way street – least of all when they’re riding a bike along a cycle track in the dark.

The incident occurred yesterday at around 7.15am in Dublin’s Phoenix Park.

John says he was going down a cycle track next to a one-way road when this driver drove “aggressively” towards him in the opposite direction.

“He put on full lights to either dazzle me or hide his plates. I had to crash into the verge.”

The driver didn’t stop, but another did check John was okay.

“Heart rate was up and obviously a bit shook, but otherwise fine.”

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johngough | 5 years ago
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Hi folks, thanks for the supporting comments. 

It was on Wellington Road in Phoenix Park. Not sure why the two way cycle track is on the outside. What goes on in the dark minds of the planners here is difficult to figure some times. However, it takes a special type of idiot to drive the wrong way up this route. It is very clearly marked and sign posted on the other end. This person was just a completly tool. 

 

I am delighted to hear that we in Ireland are again part of the the UK. Hopefully ye can pay to fix our health service now  3 

 

Thanks for support road.cc - Chapeau!    

 

P.S - Police here reckon little will be done without car reg.  

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Mungecrundle | 5 years ago
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And people complain when cars park in the cycle lane!

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ConcordeCX | 5 years ago
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"...from around the country – today it’s Dublin"

does this mean the Brexit Irish border issue has been resolved? By the Republic returning to the welcoming arms of the Imperial mother?

 

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JohnnyRemo | 5 years ago
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Why would you have the cycle track on the outside?

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giff77 replied to JohnnyRemo | 5 years ago
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JohnnyRemo wrote:

Why would you have the cycle track on the outside?

There’s a cycle track on either side of Chesterfield Avenue in Phoenix. Both tracks allow for two way traffic of cyclists. The cyclist is on the track alongside the oncoming traffic. Though on looking at it again it could be North Road. It’s been a good few years since I was last in Phoenix Park. Could be that priorities have been changed onnsome of the roads. 

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Hirsute | 5 years ago
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Good job it was a grass verge available and not a brick wall.

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brooksby | 5 years ago
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I suspect even if John hadn't got out of the way, and the car had hit him, it would have still just carried on going...      Nice dive to safety, BTW!  laugh

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